The Pearl

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What is the signifigance of the pearl? 

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This is largely a thematic question. The pearl comes to mean so many, often conflicting, ideas. It means good fortune, money, power, emancipation from poverty....At the same time, the Pearl represents greed, the end of innocence, and slavery to the idea of money.

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